By Sean Burns How can a wedding change a village? Sounds like some kind of development riddle, or maybe even a Hollywood screenplay. Not for
The Blum Center’s Development Engineering (Dev Eng) program provides students with an avenue to use their deep technical skills in fields such as economics, engineering,
Paige Balcom was in Uganda when COVID hit. The country quickly instituted a strict lockdown—all borders and airports closed, transport stopped, a strict curfew and other restrictions were enforced by the military, misinformation spread, and many people couldn’t get food. In the fall, the UC Berkeley Ph.D. student’s classes went remote, and she dealt with the 10-hour time difference.
Around the UC Berkeley campus, there has been a plethora of COVID-19 responses that will help developing and developed countries alike.